The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-24
SENATE.
HOUSE.

rleS OF schOoi districts In lie Sueuf county.
SENATE.
Not in session.
The session of the house had just opened
yesterday morning when Mr. Donnelly sent
up to the speakers chair the following reso-
lution
Resolved, That the speaker is hereby directed
to appoint q special committee of tye members
of the house to inquire and report to this house
whether any attempt has been made to eorrHptV
influence the men bers of this house in reference
to the passage of House File 23S. The commit
tee shall have power to issue subpnnas and 10
send for persons and papers, and TO employ
stenographer to report the testimony taken PC
fore it. and to sit during the sess ons OF the
house. The chairman OF the committee shall
have power to administer oaths to witne ses
called before the committee. The comniI'ee
shall have power to report at any time.
The house defeated the Merrill text book
till by an overwhelming vote.
IN THE SENATE.
The graded high license bill OF Senator
Scheffer was introduced.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To authorize county commissioners of Clay,
Wilkin, etc, to issue bonds for topograp hical
survey.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
Childs, to regulate compensation Of county
commissioners in Mcleod county; Whteman,
to establish a bureau Of industry and statistics
in Duluth; Swenson, to legalize North Star
Lodge No g. l. o. o. F., of Minneapolis; Schef-
fer, to provide for the organization OF u board OF
park commissioners in st. Paul: Crandall, con-
ferring the power OF franchises upon the COM
mon council of Owatonna; same, to authorize
city of Owatonna to issue bonds for waterwcrss: !:
Scheffer. to authorize Hennepln and Ramsey
counties to issue bends for the Marshall avenue
bridge: Hayden, to authorize city Of Ninona to
issue 800, 900 bonds for the W1nona & South
western railway.
The senate judiciary committee has recon-
mended the bills to pass establishing a state
public school: fixing the time of holding terms
Of court in the Eleventh Judicial district: 10
prevent the contractors for prison labor COM
peting with the custom work of artisans: au hor-
izing pharmacists to sell all kinds of liquoe on
physicians certificates only; relating to the law
of libel.
The soldiers home bill passed yeas 10,
nays 4.
SENATE
The senate railroad committee presented
the following substitute to Mr.. Pope's bill:
Street railways are excepted from the provis-
ions Of the act.
One car load of freight shall be transported at
number of car loads of the same class from and
to the same points.
Discrimination is prohibited, and cars must
be exchanged between roads.
The clause in Pope's bill fixing passenger ra es
at pig cents per mile. and tie clause prohibiting
passes, are stricken out.
Pooling is prohibited, and rebates are not
allowed to any person. The long and short haul
clause is retained, but the railroad commission
is given power to suspend its operations where
the lines OF two or more competing roads run to
point common to both, and tie line having the
shortest line from any competing poin: to any
other point common to both has made it's rates
by the application OF its distance tariff,
line to be the same as by the sno rter competing
line. The operation of the dis tance tariff shall
be enforced until rate equal to the through
rate shall have been reached, when its operation
shall be suspended by the provisions of the
long and short haul clause.
Tables of rates shall be kept posted in all de-
pets, and no change shall be made except upon
ten days notice
Appeals from the decisions of the railroad
commissioners to district courts is provided for.
pealed from in SO far as it relates to rates Of
transportation or to modes of tran sacting the
business of railroad companies with the public,
unless the court hearing or deciding such case
shall SO direct.
The provision for the appointment of a rail-
road commission is the same as that in Popes
bill. There are TO be tnree commi ssioners at
$4,000 per annum each, and a Sc cretary at
S1.5O0.
NEW JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
The bill was introduced in the senate yes
lerday morning redstricting the judicial
districts of the state. The scheme proposed
is as follows:
First District-Chisago. Kanabec. Pine. Wash
inGton Dakota Wabasha.
Second-Ramsey
Third-Hennepin. Wright, Anoka, Isanti
Fourth-WinOna, Olmsted, Dodge, Steele, Wa
seCa.
Fifth-Rice. LIE sueur, Scott. Carver,
Sixth-Blue Ealth, Faribault, Martin, Waton-
Seventh-AIorrison. Benton, Mile Lacs, Crow
Wing, Cass, Stevens, Todd, Sherburne.
Eighth-McLeod. Renvile, Yellow Medicine,
Lac qui Parle, Big Stone, Chippewa.
Ninth-sibley, Nicoilet, Brown. Redwood,
Lyon, Lincoln
Tenth-Houston, Fillmore, Mower. Freeborn
Eieventh-St. Louis. Lake. Cock. Carlton. Ait
kin, Itasca-
Twelfth-Meeker, Kandiyohi. Swift. Pope Big
Stone. Stevens, Traverse.
NJ np nIhirteenthacottonyood. s Jackson Murray,
ourteenth-Wadena, Otter Tail. Douglas.
Grant. Wiikin.
ifteenth-Hubbard. Becker. Clay, Norman,
Polk. Marshall Kittson. Bel,rami
Mr. Nelson offered an amendment TO Mr.
Trusx's bill to remove the state reform school,
which was adopted by the senate yesterday.
The amendment is practically substitute for
the bill It names as commission to select a
new site for the new school the following gen.
tlemen D. w. Ingersoll, Ramsey county;
George Barbours. Dakota county: +. w. Hoyt,
Goodhue county: Andrew Knox, Mower county !;
Charles w. Strobeck, Meeker county. The new
site is to be not less than twenty miles from any
other state institution. The managers of the
buildings. The cost Of the site and buildings
must not exceed the amount realized from the
sale Of the present site and buildings.
Senator Goodrich. to whom was referred his
the senate yesterday with the recommendation
that it pass.
Senator Browns bill in regard to abstract
WORK in counties requires parties performing the
same to give bonds In the sum Of So. 600.
IN THE HOUSE
rho h,,, ,j,,occ ~ ho dow thu copc;do,
alton Of general house orders, and a number
of local bills were passed in omnibus without
debate The freedom of traffic bill and in
attendance.
The house committee on pubic expenditures
and accounts.tnade their report of the conditio1
Of the auditors office yesterday morning, show
was 81 80, ,081.S2. The bonds and securities in
the treasury amount to 81, 722, 900. OF wnich
the permanent school fund amounts to s., 2GU,-
900: Minnesota railway adjustment bonds, I'll, =
9S1, 900: Minnesota revenue bonds. SOL ,OoO;
permanent university fund, S230,O0O: Ten
neesee state bonds. 100000; Tennessee state
bonds, $4,000. The committee recommend
that the state treasurer's bond OF $500, 900 be
Increased.
Tho bill to abolish the process OF garnishment,
introduced by Mr. Newell, provides that when
1t shall appear satisfactory to courts that the
sum of money Rarnisheed was actually carmel
by the manual labor of any man or woman. and
that the money is actually necessary to rhe sup
bort of such individual, the court shall dis
sharge the punishment and render Judgment in
!avor OF the defendant without costs.
Mr.. Lees bill to eax telegraph companies was
amended by striking out the clause requiring
the payment Of one per cent tax on lines doing
business partly within the state snd partly
within other territories.
Mr.. Bowen's bill relating to the liability of
persons and corporations came up in the senate
committee Of the whole yesterday, and was re-
erred to the Judiciary committee.
Mr.. Rogers bill amending the General Statu es
relating to notaries public substitutes the
word citizen" for Aelector, and enables women
to be appointed notaries.
Ehe bill providing 81, 800 for clerk hire and
500 contingent fund for the state examiner has
been recommended TO pass by the house in COM
mittee Of the whole.
Our Luck.
Milwaukee Sentinel: The Minnesota license
Is stiff; but it is safe to say that there will he
no dearth OF saloons in st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis even with a tax OF 81 900. It Is reasonable
TO expect that man who pays $1,000 will not
care to forfeit that amount by the violation of
the laws against the sale of liquors to minors and
habitual drunkards. or by keeping disorderiy